I really do commend the man, he is trying to make progress unlike some Nigerian leaders. I was looking at I think his website http://aregbesolafor2014.com/ which has his scorecard of his achievements. Nigerian politics is interested enough

sorry I have been very busy, but I did send you mail. Will keep updating!

I will cover finding products to sell, profit margin, shipping costs and eBay costs tomorrow. I will also upload my seller dashboard and just iron some issues out.

First thing's first. Signing up.

If you have an Ebay account already linked to your paypal account that is perfect. If you have an account that is not verified (credit/ debit card/ bank account). Then you will be limited to selling 350e or a max of 30 sales that month. Immediately after verification my limit rose to 750 euro/ 50 sales that month. Two months later it went up to 1,500 then 3,000. My current limit is over 8,000 euro / over 300 sale transaction a month.

Anyway apart from the sales limit, here is the key thing. Yes there is a way to make money on eBay without spending any of your money (drop shipping). There are cons and pros to drop shipping. The con is if you are a new seller on eBay or you have under 100 feedback and have been trading for less than a year, they will not release your money immediately (only after 21 days or when your customer leaves positive feedback or if you used tracked post you can show proof of delivery).

I do have the odd drop shipping product. I can dropship as I have no restrictions. The money that I get in my paypal account gets into my bank account within 2 working days. But normally I pay my supplier before the paypal funds enter my bank account. As I have reserve funds for drop shipping and refunds.

So if you are a new seller, please avoid drop shipping as it will cause you headaches.

@Souleymon, I will email you in a few mins.

I am sure you see a lot of posts on Nairaland about how to make money by signing up to some programme or buying an ebook to read to make money. I have never bought an ebook nor did I sign up for some random online 'programme'. This post is targeting Nigerians abroad as I know the issue with Paypal & Nigeria. Plus if you are in a blacklisted country and even if you manage to get a stealth account (which I will talk about later) and legitimately post things to your customer there will still be some obstacles such as selling limits (to defer scammers and just reduce eBays risks in general).

I literally just buy and re-sell or you can just get rid of your old stuff. Most people have at least $1,000/ 1,000 euro worth of old things they do not use at home. So there is two routes that you can follow, either buy and re-sell or declutter.

I will try my best to update this post daily, ranging from tips for beginners to sourcing out products. It takes me about 10 mins to research on whether or not a product will sell and their potential profit minus costs etc etc.

I have been on eBay for more than a year. In my first month I made ok money (hmm not sure I will mention my niche here) but I will still give some tips. Off to sleep, will update this tomorrow, starting with sign up and account set up, obstacles and how to avoid them.

Even if she called you names you do not have the right to slap her, or even raise your hand to her. She should have dumped your Bottom after that. If you can slap her for calling you names, you can obviously do worse to her and just end up being a woman beater. She has every right to slap you back. If my bf slaps me that's the end of it, if he can slap you once or even raise his hand to you he can do it again and go even further by giving his gf black eyes etc etc. You ought to be ashamed of yourself to even come up here and say that you slapped your gf. See that's the thing with some men, you think hitting a woman is OK. When you are in a relationship you should treat each other with respect. It wasn't right for her to insult u, but it wasn't right of you to hit her either  .

Sit down and do some more brainstorming. I doubt people who are actually in business are going to tell you what business you could do with that amount even when they started their business with that amount which is a Nigerian mentality. Sit down and think of something else that interests you would love to do. But if you really want to print and distribute recharge cards then wait and save up more money. If not think of something else you could sell that requires very little capital.

Rain is pourring down evirydayy here. I is livving in a country where four seesons occur in a day, uou get rain, hailstoness, son, winde, storming thunder in wun day. Ireland is that for you.

I'm abroad

teeboyseve:

Goodluck with your business ideas.

Thank you

I became an entrepreneur because I am passionate about the business that I want to thrive in. Although right now I am taking it more of a passionate thing maybe in the long run I am more than likely to benefit from it. It is not even the money that attracted me to it, see those who become an entrepreneur only for the sole purpose of making a gain, but do not have a proper interest in what they want to pursue might not be the best idea. My dad owns a business, my mum owns her own business. I was just going to go to Uni and become an accountant when I graduate but that may not be the case anymore. I have always had the mind of an entrepreneur since I was a little girl, I use to think of great start-up idea's and I was easily able to identify untapped niches in markets that people have missed .
But I have never put it into practice until now. I am glad that I am starting up my business, it is alot of hard work as I am still in Uni right now and I also have a social life. Even with all them factors I am still starting up my company. .

So if I start up the company, I do not have to do the youth service then?

I want to start up a company but I haven't even graduated yet and I am not based in Nigeria. That is not the problem, the problem is, would I have to do youth service (NYC) if I want to start up in Nigeria (I'm under 30)? If I start up the company I do not need to seek employment so maybe it doesn't count as when people do their youth service they use it to gain employment too. I will be too busy with my company to do the NYC as the company requires more or less full time work.

Your help on this topic will be well appreciated as I do not know much about it.

Why don't you use the internet. Find wholesalers from china and order your goods instead. I'm not based in Nigeria but I have ordered things from wholesalers that are in china before. Maybe before you get something in bulk just ask the seller to send you a sample first.